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In this study, we explore the Josephson current-phase relation within a planar diffuse tunneling superconducting multilayer junction subjected to a parallel magnetic field. Our investigation involves computing the supercurrent associated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-19 A. S. Osin , Alex Levchenko , Maxim Khodas

We study a phase-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction formed in an InSbAs two-dimensional electron gas proximitized by aluminum. By embedding the two pairs of junction terminals in asymmetric DC SQUIDs we can control the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Christian G. Prosko , Wietze D. Huisman , Ivan Kulesh , Di Xiao , Candice Thomas , Michael J. Manfra , Srijit Goswami

Wires made of topological insulators (TI) are a promising platform for searching for Majorana bound states. These states can be probed by analyzing the fractional ac Josephson effect in Josephson junctions with the TI wire as a weak link.…

We study the supercurrent in quasi-one-dimensional Josephson junctions with a weak link involving magnetism, either via magnetic impurities or via ferromagnetism. In the case of weak links longer than {\color{black}the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 P. A. Ioselevich , P. M. Ostrovsky , Ya. V. Fominov

The interplay between novel topological states and superconductivity has garnered substantial interest due to its potential for topological quantum computing. The Josephson effect serves as a useful probe for edge superconductivity in these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-12 Junjie Qi , Chui-Zhen Chen , Juntao Song , Jie Liu , Ke He , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We theoretically study a Kitaev wire interrupted by an extra site which gives rise to super exchange coupling between two Majorana bound states. We show that this system hosts a tunable, non-equlibrium Josephson effect with a characteristic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-22 C. Laflamme , J. C. Budich , P. Zoller , M. Dalmonte

A Josephson junction (JJ) is a key device in the development of superconducting circuits, wherein a supercurrent in the JJ is controlled by the phase difference between the two superconducting electrodes. Recently, it has been shown that…

The Josephson effect is a manifestation of the macroscopic phase coherence of superconductors and superfluids. We propose that with ultracold Fermi gases one can realise a spin-asymmetric Josephson effect in which the two spin components of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-12-10 M. O. J. Heikkinen , F. Massel , J. Kajala , M. J. Leskinen , G. -S. Paraoanu , P. Torma

We report the results of several nonequilibrium experiments performed on superconducting/normal/superconducting (S/N/S) Josephson junctions containing either one or two extra terminals that connect to normal reservoirs. Currents injected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. S. Crosser , Jian Huang , F. Pierre , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä , F. K. Wilhelm , Norman O. Birge

In the presence of phase fluctuations the dc Josephson effect is modified and the supercurrent at zero voltage is replaced by a peak at small but finite voltages. It is shown that at zero temperature this peak is determined by two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Hermann Grabert

We theoretically investigate the Josephson effect between two proximized Fibonacci quasicrystals. A quasiperiodic modulation of the chemical potential on a superconducting substrate induces topological gaps and edge modes with energies…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Ignacio Sardinero , Jorge Cayao , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Pablo Burset

Superconducting tunnel junctions constitute the units of superconducting quantum circuits and are massively used both for quantum sensing and quantum computation. In previous works, we predicted the existence of a nonlinear thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

It is shown in previous works that the coupling between two Majorana end states in superconducting quantum wires leads to fractional Josephson effect. However, in realistic experimental conditions, multiple bands of the wires are occupied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. T. Law , Patrick A. Lee

We present a theoretical study of a Josephson junction consisting of two s-wave superconducting leads coupled over a classical spin. When an external magnetic field is applied, the classical spin will precess with the Larmor frequency. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Holmqvist , S. Teber , M. Fogelström

We study quantum phase-slip (QPS) processes in a superconducting ring containing N Josephson junctions and threaded by an external static magnetic flux. In a such system, a QPS consists of a quantum tunneling event connecting two distinct…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 G. Rastelli , I. M. Pop , F. W. J. Hekking

We investigate the Josephson effect for a setup with two lattice quantum wires featuring Majorana zero energy boundary modes at the tunnel junction. In the weak-coupling, the exact solution reproduces the perturbative result for the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-16 Flavio S. Nogueira , Ilya Eremin

A new picture of the Josephson effect is devised. The radio-frequency (RF) signal, observed in a Josephson junction, is shown to stem from bound electrons, tunneling periodically through the insulating film. This holds also for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Jacob Szeftel , Nicolas Sandeau , Michel Abou Ghantous

We investigate the Josephson current in a Fano-Josephson junction formed by the direct coupling between two topological superconducting wires and their indirect coupling via a quantum dot. It is found that when two Majorana zero modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Gao Zhen , Shu-Feng Zhang , Ying Zhao , Guangyu Yi , Wei-Jiang Gong

Topological superconductors supporting Majorana Fermions with non-abelian statistics are presently a subject of intense theoretical and experimental effort. It has been proposed that the observation of a half-frequency or a fractional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-21 Jay D. Sau , Erez Berg , Bertrand I. Halperin

We study non-Hermitian Josephson junctions formed by superconductors with a finite phase difference under non-Hermiticity, which naturally appears due to coupling to normal reservoirs. Depending on the structure of non-Hermiticity, captured…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-13 Jorge Cayao , Masatoshi Sato